Learn Kubernetes Weekly issue 188 · 17 Jun 2026

ipBlock Breaks HTTPS in Kubernetes, Nginx Resolve Fixes 502s, Before KEDA, CI/CD Pipeline Failures Need Humans, SLOs as Kubernetes Resources

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Articles

3. Before You Implement KEDA, Do This First

   medium.com

   This article teaches how to build a cost-justified KEDA rollout plan for Kafka consumers using CPU idle heatmaps, lag profiles, and a per-consumer cost model before writing any ScaledObject configuration.

5. Your SLOs Should Be Kubernetes Resources, Not Grafana Dashboards

   medium.com

   This article shows how to stop defining SLOs in wikis and Grafana dashboards, and instead manage them as Kubernetes CRDs using a custom operator that auto-generates Prometheus rules, burn-rate alerts, and Grafana dashboards from a single YAML file.

Tutorials

1. Stateless ArgoCD for Bare-Metal Kubernetes

   substack.com

   This tutorial shows how to run the ArgoCD controller as a Deployment instead of a StatefulSet on bare-metal Kubernetes using the dynamicClusterDistribution alpha flag, and reduce node eviction tolerations from 5 minutes to 90 seconds.

2. Signed, Sealed, and Admitted

   cloudsecburrito.com

   This tutorial teaches how to implement container image signature verification in Kubernetes using Cosign for signing, Kyverno for policy enforcement, and Sigstore Policy Controller for admission control.

Kubernetes jobs

1. • Software Engineer with Tubi

   • Salary: $186.4K to $266.3K a year

   • Location: based in the office (and remote from home) in San Francisco, CA, USA

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, observability, NGINX, Pingora, resilience, security, AI tools, LLM tools, AI

2. • Software Engineer with NISC

   • Salary: $9 to $484K a year

   • Location: based in the office (and remote from home) in Mandan, ND, USA

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, AWS, Bamboo, Postgres, MongoDB, Kafka, Cassandra, Oracle, Agentic AI

3. • Software Engineer with NISC

   • Salary: $9 to $484K a year

   • Location: based in the office (and remote from home) in Cedar Rapids, IA; Lake Saint Louis, MO; Mandan, ND, USA

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, AWS, Bitbucket, Git, Bamboo, Spring Boot, Postgres, SSO, MongoDB

4. • Software Engineer with NISC

   • Salary: $9 to $484K a year

   • Location: based in the office (and remote from home) in Cedar Rapids, IA, USA

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, AWS, Bitbucket, Git, Bamboo, Postgres, MongoDB, Kafka, RDBMS

5. • Developer Advocate with Temporal Technologies

   • Salary: $140K to $180K a year

   • Location: remote within UTC-8 and UTC-7

   • Tech stack: Kubernetes, Kubernetes, EKS, AWS, GKE, Docker, GCP, OpenTracing, observability, Grafana

Discover more Kubernetes jobs on Kube Careers →

Code & tools

1. Mocker

   github.com/us

   Mocker is a Docker-compatible CLI and Compose tool for macOS that runs on Apple’s Containerization framework, so existing Docker commands and compose files work without Docker Desktop.

2. Cluster API

   github.com/kubernetes-sigs

   Cluster API is a Kubernetes subproject that provides declarative APIs and tooling to provision, upgrade, and operate Kubernetes clusters across infrastructure providers using Kubernetes-style automation patterns.

3. Trupositive

   github.com/trupositive-ai

   Trupositive is a wrapper that automatically tags Terraform and CloudFormation resources with Git commit SHA, branch, and repository metadata for auditability and infrastructure traceability.

4. pyrra

   github.com/pyrra-dev

   Pyrra is a Kubernetes operator that helps you make SLOs with Prometheus manageable, accessible, and easy to use for everyone.

5. NetObserv Operator

   github.com/netobserv

   NetObserv deploys an eBPF agent on every node to capture network flows, enrich them with Kubernetes metadata, and export to Loki, Prometheus, Kafka, or IPFIX — with a web console showing topology, raw flows, and traffic metrics.

Other interesting projects:

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Kubernetes call for papers

1. Dutch Cloud Native Day

   The Call For Paper is open until 22 June 2026 at UTC. More info →

   • Location: Utrecht, NL

   • In-person conference organized by Dutch CND.

   • The conference starts on the 29 October 2026.

   • Apply here

3. ContainerDays & AI Context Singapore

   The Call For Paper is open until 31 July 2026 at UTC. More info →

   • Location: Singapore, SG

   • In-person conference organized by ContainerDays.

   • The conference starts on the 28 October 2026.

   • Apply here

7. Kubernetes Community Days Korea 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 26 June 2026 at UTC. More info →

   • Location: Seoul, KR

   • In-person conference organized by KCD South Korea.

   • The conference starts on the 1 September 2026.

   • Apply here

9. OmniOpenCon 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 31 August 2026 at UTC. More info →

   • Location: Bucharest, RO

   • In-person conference organized by OmniOpenCon.

   • The conference starts on the 18 October 2026.

   • Apply here

Thanks for reading.

See you next week!

— Gulcan

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